The Preliminary Study Of Luxury Thinking Of G·Simmel

Simmel has a specific research toward luxury in the culture of currency philosophy, luxury is an important part of reflection Simmel holds toward modernity. This essay researches the Simmel's luxury ideology through the style,form and result of luxury,the worthy of luxury and and luxury life these three dimensions which are relative with people's modern life.First of all, this essay put forward that according to Simmel's thinking, luxury includes the demand for luxury,material luxury and quantification of luxury from style, objective and subjective form of luxury from form. This essay also proposes that since monetary luxury possesses the property of dissimilation just like currency, the dissimilation of luxury performs a separation between subjective form and objective form which become a major problem of modern luxury life style. The result of luxury dissimilation is that it makes every luxury people confronts the dual structure which leads to the end of luxury.Further more, this article researches the worthy of luxury from the angle of fashion luxury. By means of combining the duality of fashion, it proclaims the worthy of luxury in social reality region,social philosophy region and metaphysics meaning. In social reality region, the worthy of luxury mainly reflects as luxury reflects the scale division; in social philosophy region, the worthy of luxury mainly reflects that it has intense self verification and social recognition; in metaphysics meaning, the worthy of luxury mainly reflects as its open and equality.Finally, this article is a research toward luxury life. The generating background of luxury life locates in the life and culture of big city. Luxury life reflects the spirit confusing and survival crisis of modern people in big cities, which reflects as the deficiency of sense of life: spirit becomes luxury; the deficiency of sense of purpose:main body becomes luxury; lack of intimacy:emotion becomes luxury. This essay discusses the possibilities of remodeling the culture of big city through introspection of luxury life and deconstruction of luxury, and analyses the method of remitting the dilemma of metropolis culture which Simmel searched for——the method of "distance" redemption.